Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

Today, the heat is on President Joe Biden. Should he stand or not in the forthcoming US election?

He needs to step down. I have very much appreciated all the work of the last four years.

But I feel very, very concerned that if he remains

at the top of the ticket, we will lose in November. Yes, following some faltering debate and

interview performances, a growing number of leading Democratic donors are breaking ranks to suggest

that Joe Biden should stand down.

What does this say about the role of big money in U.S. politics?

It's a bad look, and it reflects poorly, frankly, on, I think, the donor class.

And it shows a fair amount of contempt for Democratic voters.

The donors move on President Biden.

That's Business Daily from the BBC.

Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare.

Thank you, President Biden, President Trump.

This is how the daily drumbeat of pressure on the president began.

Over this performance, in the first televised debate between

the 81-year-old Joe Biden and his 78-year-old Republican opponent, Donald Trump, last month.

I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either.

Look, all he had to do is... Well, the taunts of his rival for the

presidency may be predictable, but Joe Biden's age, as the oldest serving president in history,

was already a talking point. Now, its leading figures within the party, though, like the Hollywood

star and leading fundraiser George Clooney, who are stating openly in a newspaper editorial

...